88 THE GLACIER EPOCH OF AUSTRALASIA. 
by ice. He states that “ One of these instances, ona spur high 
above a tributary to the Snowy River, was so remarkable that 
my assistant (sic), who had never seen any roches-moutonneés 
in his life before, was immediately much struck by its 
appearance. There, there is one rock polished off with a surface 
of about 3 acres, and about 25 other much smaller ones around 
it, all polished down to exactly the same surface, divided 
from one another, however, by depressions of varying depth.” 
He also states that on a spur descending from the Abbot 
Range roches-moutonneés similar in character are very 
numerous. He did not observe any signs corresponding to 
perched blocks, moraine stuff, nor actwal traces of striated or 
grooved surfaces anywhere, although he conjectures, as regards 
the possibility of glacial action being traced at levels below 
5,800 feet, beneath which he was unable to find further 
signs, he states:—‘“‘I have looked carefully around on m 
way up and down the mountain, but I was not able to detect 
any glacial action below 5,800 feet.” He, however, is of 
opinion that in the Snowy valley a glacier might be expected 
to have descended for some distance from the mountains, and 
thought it likely that moraines may eventually be found there ; 
but he also adds that it is only in this valley where moraines 
may be expected, “‘ because it is the only one which comes 
down from an extensive plateau on which a glacier was 
formed.” 
Dr. von Lendenfeld refers the age during which such 
glacial action occurred to the period which marked the more 
intense form of glaciation in New Zealand. Mr. Jas. Stirling 
has also written two or three most interesting papers, in which 
he gives us the results of careful observations made by him 
on several occasions among the Australian Alps. 
Mr. Stirling corroborates Dr. von Lendenfeld in attributing. 
the polished rock surfaces on Mount Kosciusko to compara- 
tively recent glacial action. He also states that, in his 
opinion, the observed widespread dispersion of the boulder 
deposits, the rounded contours of the crystalline rocks, and 
the undulatory outlines of the foot-hills in many valleys, all 
bespeak agencies distinct from ordinary fluviatile action, 
and point very distinctly to glacier action. He further 
cites additional evidence of glaciation as follows:— 
“Erratics in the Mitta Mitta and the Kiewa Valleys; 
huge blocks weighing many tons; smooth surfaces on 
the Cobberas Mountains and Mount Bogong; moraines 
at the base of the latter on the Mountain Creek Valley ; 
eroded lake basins, Dry Hill, Hermongee Swamp; 
Omeo Lake basin; Morainic Lake, Mount Welling- 
ton, etc.; but he carefully observes, in conclusion, that 
“although the fact of a glacier action can . .. be satisfac- 
